CHAP. XL 



Of Pruning For eft-trees. 



t | *HERE are a number of people who 

 JL are againft the pruning of foreft- 

 trees, efpecially the workers in wood, 

 who fay it occafions as many blemifhes 

 as there are branches cut off, and have 

 prepofleffed many gentlemen to be of the 

 lame opinion. It is not pruning, but the 

 bad methods of performing it that occa- 

 fions the objection. 



THICK planting in poor land is the befl 

 method to make them prune themfelves ; 

 but; that method will not hold good in 

 rich or in middling land, for if the trees 

 were to be planted fo thick as to prune 

 them/elves, they would draw up weak 



and 



